I hadn’t heard ror would consider a discount. That would be great! Maybe we can tkachuk him. Trade him to a contender and then resign him like we did Walt during the mid aughts rebuild.
I didn’t realize mikkola was already 26. Sucks to probably lose him.
It was from JR in the Atlantic, but here’s a recap…
In an exclusive interview with Jeremy Rutherford of The Athletic, O’Reilly was clear:
This is where I want to be. I hope I don’t get moved, but I think things will probably progress, especially with the deadline coming up and the talks with that. We’ll see how it goes. We’re starting to get into that.
“That” in this case is extension talks, though it doesn’t seem like things are very far along at this point. O’Reilly went as far as saying he would give the Blues a discount, given his success there.
But even with a team-friendly deal, can the Blues afford to pass up the assets they would get for O’Reilly at the deadline?
8th highest percentage at Bedard at this point. Probably going to be tough to get much higher than that, but with the way they are playing who knows? That is the only silver lining I have. If you are going to be a lottery team this is one of the better years to be one.
Tarasenko and Mikkola are FA to be and we weren't going to resign them; Blais is a FA to be also, so he'll be gone after the season also.
so we'll be left with the 1st round pick (higher of the 2), a 3rd round pick (NYR should make the playoffs) and a meh prospect in Skinner (a big RHD who's only 21)
Tarasenko hasn't been good this year and controlled where we could send him, so I'm good with this.